Novel Immunotherapy for Cancer Treatment: Chimeric Antigen Receptors Targeting CD70 Antigen

09:11 EDT 13 Sep 2018 | NIH

Scientists at the NCI's Surgery Branch have developed anti-CD70 chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) to treat cancers. CD70 is an antigen that is expressed on a variety of human cancers such as renal cell carcinoma, glioblastoma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and chronic lymphocytic leukemia. The anti-CD70 CARs are hybrid proteins consisting of a receptor portion that recognizes CD70 antigen, and intracellular T cell signaling domains selected to optimally activate the CAR expressing T cells.  Genetically engineered T cells that express this CARs will bind to CD70 on the cancer cells and will be activated to induce an immune response that promotes robust tumor cell elimination when infused into cancer patients.  This technology can rapidly generate a vigorous T-cell response from the patient's own blood, targeting CD70 expressing cancer cells, and potentially induce tumor rejection.

IC: 
NCI
NIH Ref. No.: 
E-021-2015
Advantages: 
  • CD70-specific CARs expressed on T cells will increase the likelihood of successful targeted therapy.  
  • CAR-T cells targeting only CD70 expressing cells and thus may generate fewer side effects than other cancer treatment approaches.  
  • T-cell transfer can provide much larger numbers of anti-tumor immune cells compared to other approaches such as vaccines.
  • With the advent of Provenge(R),  and Yervoy(R), immunotherapy is now more widely accepted as a viable cancer treatment option.   
Applications: 
  • Immunotherapeutics to treat cancers that overexpress CD70, such as renal cell carcinoma, glioblastoma, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and chronic lymphocytic leukemia.  
  • A personalized cancer treatment strategy for patients whose tumor cells express CD70 whereby the patient’s own T cells are isolated, engineered to express the anti-CD70 CARs, and re-infused into the same patient to attack the tumor(s).
Development Status: 

Pre-clinical (in vivo)

Updated On: 
Jul 19, 2018
Provider Classifications: 
Publications: 
Patent Application: 
62/088,882
Patent Authority: 
U.S.
Licensing Contacts: 
Lead Inventor: 
Inventor IC: 
NCI
NCI
NCI
Inventor Lab URL: 
https://ccr.cancer.gov/james-c-yang
LPM FIrst Name: 
John
LPM Last Name: 
Hewes
Inv Is lead: 
LPM Phone: 
240-276-5515
LPM Email: 
John.Hewes@nih.gov
LPM Suffix: 
Ph.D.
LPM Organization: 
NCI - National Cancer Institute
DTDT Classification: 
Diagnostics
Therapeutics
DTDT Description: 
Diagnostics
Therapeutics
Pat Filing Date: 
2014-12-08
Publication Link: 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=23071066
Publication Caption: 
PMID 23071066
Publication Title: 

Wang QJ, et al.

Collaboration Sought: 
Yes
Institute or Center: 
Collaboration Opportunity: 

Licensing only

E Number Only: 
E-021-2015
Inventor First Name: 
James
Qiong
Zhiya
Inventor Last Name: 
Yang
Wang
Yu

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